The Elder Scrolls Arena + Dagerfall

[fneddy]

#6133

Hi,

i would like to suggest “The Elder Scrolls” Series. I was surprised that the two first games, Arena and Daggerfall, where, at least according to Wikipedia, released for DOS.

I recently bought Morrowind on Gog and this two old games there just part of the package. So now i need a reason to play 😉

greetings, Eddy

[killershrew]

#7082

I second Daggerfall. It is an amazing game and with the modern ways to play it like “daggerfall for unity” it is also a great experience in modern terms

[fastwinstondoom]

#8305

Surprised that more people haven’t added their voices to this suggestion, this is probably on most top 5 rpgs-lists of games released in the 90s.

A month might not be enough for this game though, it is literally enormous! I think still the biggest singleplayer gameworld ever made?

[nevice]

#8596

I played Daggerfall a while back and thought it was pretty playable (if rather unforgiving at times). Would definitely be up for playing it again! I’d be up for trying Arena also but don’t know how well/poorly it has aged.

[watchful]

#8861

Maybe a 2 or even 3 month game?

Or perhaps there are some campaign-focused guides folks could follow along? IIRC it was hard to know what to do.

Also the Unity port is a much better UX and its mods make it much more approachable.

[boomlinde]

#10606

The latest episode about Frontier reminded me of Daggerfall, since it’s similar in its open-endedness and lack of forced objectives. I’ve been replaying it with Daggerfall Unity lately and it’s a blast with all the new mods.

The dungeons are absolutely massive and there are hundreds of them, maybe thousands. It gets a bit samey but I’ve always appreciated the ambition even if it wasn’t all perfectly realized.

None of the later Elder Scrolls games are anything like it and take a more game design oriented approach to scale, trying to create the illusion of large towns and countryside instead of just making them large. This makes sense, and most of the world in Daggerfall is uninteresting and empty. but I think the fact that its there at all adds a lot to the immersion.

Some guy on YouTube made a 70 hour video series of him just walking from one corner of the map to the opposite…

[SpaceGameJunkie]

#10607

Daggerfall is still my favorite ES game. Just so amazing.